OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Government Information Quarterly is 13. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
An ecosystem perspective on developing data collaboratives for addressing societal issues: The role of conveners	386
The construction of self-sovereign identity: Extending the interpretive flexibility of technology towards institutions	181
Artificial Intelligence for data-driven decision-making and governance in public affairs	180
Digital government transformation as an organizational response to the COVID-19 pandemic	166
The dynamics of AI capability and its influence on public value creation of AI within public administration	141
Public perceptions of responsible AI in local government: A multi-country study using the theory of planned behaviour	131
Machine learning for predicting elections in Latin America based on social media engagement and polls	120
To fee or not to fee: Requester attitudes toward freedom of information charges	119
Joining the open government partnership initiative: An empirical analysis of diffusion effects	108
Algorithmic profiling of the unemployed: A case study and a framework for understanding legitimization processes	105
The role of municipal digital services in advancing rural resilience	101
An exploration of agile government in the public sector: A systematic literature review at macro, meso, and micro levels of analysis	98
Sustainability challenges of artificial intelligence and Citizens' regulatory preferences	93
Drivers of cybersecurity improvements in local government: Capacity-building, collaboration and their timing	89
Implementing challenges of artificial intelligence: Evidence from public manufacturing sector of an emerging economy	85
Editorial Board	83
Editorial Board	82
One tool to rule? – A field experimental longitudinal study on the costs and benefits of mobile device usage in public agencies	81
Editorial Board	81
Analyzing digital government partnerships: An institutional logics perspective	78
What determinants influence citizens' engagement with mobile government social media during emergencies? A net valence model	78
Transplanting good practices in Smart City development: A step-wise approach	75
Efficiency gains in public service delivery through information technology in municipalities	74
Institutional trustworthiness on public attitudes toward facial recognition technology: Evidence from U.S. policing	73
Experimenting with collaboration in the Smart City: Legal and governance structures of Urban Living Labs	69

Do citizens trust trustworthy artificial intelligence? Experimental evidence on the limits of ethical AI measures in government	68
Governing digital government platforms for service innovation: A staged governance model based on boundary resources and coordination activities	67
Is a more transparent, connected, and engaged city a smarter investment? A study of the relationship between 311 systems and credit ratings in American cities	64
Why coproduce? Citizens' perspectives on the costs and benefits of technology-enabled coproduction	64
Responsive E-government in China: A way of gaining public support	63
Determinants of open government data continuance usage and value creation: A self-regulation framework analysis	60
Virtual healthcare in the new normal: Indian healthcare consumers adoption of electronic government telemedicine service	60
Managing the manosphere: The limits of responsibility for government social media adoption	59
Can AI communication tools increase legislative responsiveness and trust in democratic institutions?	58
Different approaches to analyzing e-government adoption during the Covid-19 pandemic	57
A more secure framework for open government data sharing based on federated learning	56
Push them forward: Challenges in intergovernmental organizations' influence on rural broadband infrastructure expansion	56
A theory of the infrastructure-level bureaucracy: Understanding the consequences of data-exchange for procedural justice, organizational decision-making, and data itself	55
Data procurement and market power in the Dutch public sector: How to become a stronger buyer	55
Explainable AI for government: Does the type of explanation matter to the accuracy, fairness, and trustworthiness of an algorithmic decision as perceived by those who are affected?	54
Framework for interoperable service architecture development	51
The role played by government communication on the level of public fear in social media: An investigation into the Covid-19 crisis in Italy	50
Evaluating incident reporting in cybersecurity. From threat detection to policy learning	47
Organizing public sector AI adoption: Navigating between separation and integration	46
Strategically constructed narratives on artificial intelligence: What stories are told in governmental artificial intelligence policies?	45
Automated decision-making and good administration: Views from inside the government machinery	45
Automation bias in public administration – an interdisciplinary perspective from law and psychology	45
Artificial intelligence-based public healthcare systems: G2G knowledge-based exchange to enhance the decision-making process	43
Open government data initiatives as agents of digital transformation in the public sector: Exploring the extent of use among early adopters	42
The evolution of theoretical contributions in digital government research: Insights from GIQ	41
Exploiting GPT for synthetic data generation: An empirical study	41
Strategies to advance the dream of integrated digital public service delivery in inter-organizational collaboration networks	41
Public value positions and design preferences toward AI-based chatbots in e-government. Evidence from a conjoint experiment with citizens and municipal front desk officers	41
Editorial Board	40
Editorial Board	40
The global legislative ICT transparency index	40
Towards a multicentric quality framework for legal information portals: An application to the DACH region	40
Measuring the effect of political alignment, platforms, and fake news consumption on voter concern for election processes	40
Creating a workforce of fatigued cynics? A randomized controlled trial of implementing an algorithmic decision-making support tool	39
Recovery from AI government service failures: Is disclosing the identity of the AI agent an effective strategy?	39
Citizen-centricity in digital government: A theoretical and empirical typology	38
AI in Taxation — Experimental evidence on citizen design preferences and perceptions of legitimacy	37
Understanding the antecedents of privacy fatigue in facial recognition-based m-Gov services: An empirical study from China	36
Digital transparency and citizen participation: Evidence from the online crowdsourcing platform of the City of Sacramento	35
An attention-based view of AI assimilation in public sector organizations: The case of Saudi Arabia	35
AI adoption in public administration: Perspectives of public sector managers and public sector non-managerial employees	35
Editorial Board	34
Does trust in government moderate the perception towards deepfakes? Comparative perspectives from Asia on the risks of AI and misinformation for democracy	34
Generating and grounding prescriptive knowledge: Improving design research and policy practice	33
Locating information systems in the freedom of information process	32
Persuasion, information technology, and the environmental citizen: An empirical study of the persuasion effectiveness of city applications	32
Regulating artificial intelligence: Proposal for a global solution	30
Does information technology–organizational resource interaction affect E-government performance? Moderating roles of environmental uncertainty	29
The impact of legacy systems on digital transformation in European public administration: Lesson learned from a multi case analysis	29
Digital inclusion in public services for vulnerable groups: A systematic review for research themes and goal-action framework from the lens of public service ecosystem theory	29

Beyond technology: Exploring public value creation mechanisms and outcomes in platform-to-government data sharing	29
Adaptive governance amidst the war: Overcoming challenges and strengthening collaborative digital service provision in Ukraine	29
How to promote AI in the US federal government: Insights from policy process frameworks	28
Public value creation through the use of open government data in Australian public sector: A quantitative study from employees' perspective	27
Hybrid images of generative AI: A Q methodological study of civil servants' perceptions	27
Unraveling the Nexus between National Culture and AI plan development and AI readiness: Insights from a configurational analysis	27
The strategic use of AI in the public sector: A public values analysis of national AI strategies	27
Digital ethics: Global trends and divergent paths	27
Parallel learning loops in collaborative innovation: Insights from digital government	26
Editorial Board	26
Governing Ethics for the Digital Transformation: Developing, Testing, and Validating a Framework	26
Faced with digital bureaucrats: A scenario-based survey analysis of how clients perceive automation in street-level decision-making	26
Factors in the adoption of open government initiatives in Spanish local governments	25
Balancing privacy and trust: Social acceptance of video-based traffic sensors in smart city initiatives	25
Barriers to artificial intelligence adoption in smart cities: A systematic literature review and research agenda	24
Exploring open government data ecosystems across data, information, and business	24
A taxonomy for proactive public services	24
The effect of electronic program applications amidst the politics of administrative burden	24
Building a consensus: Harmonizing AI ethical guidelines and legal frameworks in Korea for enhanced governance	24
Editorial Board	23
Local public services and the ethical deployment of artificial intelligence	23
Barriers to and mechanism for open government data use by the private sectors: A grounded theory approach	22
Antecedents of the intention to adopt crowdsourcing for innovation in government: Findings from Belgium and the Netherlands	22
Under big brother's watchful eye: Cross-country attitudes toward facial recognition technology	22
Measuring the performances of politicians on social media and the correlation with major Latin American election results	21
Best practices in e-government communication: Lessons from the local Governments' use of official facebook pages	21
Factors for collaboration amongst smart city stakeholders: A local government perspective	21
Rumor management during natural disasters: A “whole of government” coordination perspective	21
Stop trying to predict elections only with twitter – There are other data sources and technical issues to be improved	21
Does the internet help governments contain the COVID-19 pandemic? Multi-country evidence from online human behaviour	21
Moving beyond privacy and airspace safety: Guidelines for just drones in policing	20
Automated decision-making in public administration: Changing the decision space between public officials and citizens	20
The haves and the have nots: Civic technologies and the pathways to government responsiveness	20
IT-embedded dynamic capabilities for public institutions coping with disinformation – The case of financial fake news	20
How information capacity shapes policy implementation: A comparison of administrative burdens in COVID-19 vaccination programs in the United States, Mexico, and the Netherlands	20
How emerging technologies can solve critical issues in organizational operations: An analysis of blockchain-driven projects in the public sector	19
Open government data and self-efficacy: The empirical evidence of micro foundation via survey experiments	19
Dashboards as boundary objects: Shaping data-policy boundaries in complex policy domains	19
Algorithmic design, value trade-offs, and public preferences for autonomous buses: Insights from a conjoint experiment	19
The role of digital technologies in global climate negotiations	19
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure – Building capacities for the use of big data algorithm systems (BDAS) in early crisis detection	19
Transforming towards inclusion-by-design: Information system design principles shaping data-driven financial inclusiveness	18
AI: Friend or foe of fairness perceptions of the tax administration? A survey experiment on citizens' procedural fairness perceptions	18
Coping with digital transformation in frontline public services: A study of user adaptation in policing	18
Does personality matter in social media? An approach to factors influencing citizen-given importance towards use by public administrations	18
Toward intelligence or ignorance? Performativity and uncertainty in government tech narratives	18
State versus Technology: What drives trust in and usage of internet voting, institutional or technological trust?	18
Digital government inclusion: Exploring strategies for inclusive government automation	18
How perceived red tape in freedom of information processing shapes public servants' trust in citizens: Evidence from Slovakia and Croatia	17
Breaking barriers: Evaluating accessibility in local government online platforms for individuals with disabilities	17
Government transparency: Monitoring public policy accumulation and administrative overload	17
Policymaking in the digital era: Exploring techno-legal assemblages and their impact on policy formulation	17
Bridging local and global: Convergence, divergence and dialogue in digital government research communities	17
Theorizing the evolution of public data ecosystems: An empirically grounded multi-generational model and future research agenda	16
Exploring the complexity of cross-boundary data collaboratives based on the foundation of governmental open data: A study in Taiwan	16
Building open government data platform ecosystems: A dynamic development approach that engages users from the start	16
Digital transformation decoupling: The impact of willful ignorance on public sector digital transformation	16
Resolving value conflicts in public AI governance: A procedural justice framework	16
Editorial Board	15
Does being informed about government transparency boost trust? Exploring an overlooked mechanism	15
Public servants' attitudes toward the use of Artificial Intelligence in policymaking: An experimental study	15
The governance of artificial intelligence in Canada: Findings and opportunities from a review of 84 AI governance initiatives	14
Orchestrating artificial intelligence for urban sustainability	14
Positioning public sector practitioners as ‘moral crumple zones’: Mechanisms in the early use of generative AI work support tools	14
Identifying the crucial factors of e-government success from the perspective of Australian citizens living with disability using a public value approach	14
Can e-government reduce local governments' financial deficits?——Analysis based on county-level data from China	14
Examining public managers' competencies of artificial intelligence implementation in local government: A quantitative study	14
Adaptive social media communication for web-based accountability	14
Artificial Intelligence in deliberation: The AI penalty and the emergence of a new deliberative divide	14
Editorial Board	14
A privacy risk identification framework of open government data: A mixed-method study in China	14
Development and evaluation of an urban data governance reference model based on design science research	13
Governance of artificial intelligence: A risk and guideline-based integrative framework	13
Voting intentions on social media and political opinion polls	13
Artificial intelligence for digital citizen participation: Design principles for a collective intelligence architecture	13
Public service operational efficiency and blockchain – A case study of Companies House, UK	13
How the exercise of the right to information (RTI) affects trust in political institutions	13
How rationale and process transparency shape perceived legitimacy in AI-assisted decisions: Experimental evidence from China and the United States	13